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Yes, even if I am in the field, I must have internet connectivity to load a script in the app! If I want to change my script, I need to do the upload/activate/download teleprompter dance with the Bodelin website.

I MUST use the Bodelin website EVERY TIME I want to load any text/script into the app. I cannot take a text script file, add it to iTunes on my computer and sync it to load it in to the app.

I cannot type my script into the app on the iPhone/iTouch directly.

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This software is easy to use on my iPhone, fairly straightforward, my biggest concern is how Bodelin designed the loading of teleprompter scripts into the app.

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Using a wide angle lens will help with this, you can see the one I use on the camera above, as well as, my bluetooth wireless microphone also. If you are not using a wireless mic or lapel mic, the audio may suffer. In order to avoid this, move back away from the camera, maybe 8 to 10 feet. One tip on recording video, since the teleprompter is next to the camera lens there is the chance that people will notice you not looking at them (the camera lens) while reading the script. The net here is that I cannot use the iPhone/iTouch software app in portait mode with the ProPrompter Wing. Maybe this is a design oversight on BodelinвЂ™s part, who knows, maybe they will fix this in the future. The ProPrompter App for the iPhone has a function to put the teleprompter in portrait mode, but unfortunately the mobile device clip, when fully extended, is not long enough to hold the iPhone in portrait mode (even without my iPhone rubber case). This is what the mobile devide clip looks like with my iPhone. If you look at the larger version of the pictures notice the inner cutout has several points along the length and is not smooth. It would have been nice if Bodelin had put the same effort for this mobile device clip base as they did for the the camera mount, there are obvious stamp marks and rough edges, a big contrast in part quality. The mobile device clip base is made from stamped aluminum which is then bent to the shape you see. To fix this I created a small washer out of a plastic milk jug, you can see it on one of the thumbscrews below. One of the things I noticed when I screwed the camera mount to the camera is the metal part of the thumbscrew marred the under surface of the camera mount. The camera mount part is made from bar stock aluminum and it machined nicely with no rough edges at all, in fact if you strike the middle with your fingernail it will sound like a tuning fork. Here is a picture of the assembled ProPrompter Wing. Here are my thoughts on the hardware and software.

The ProPrompter iPhone/iTouch App was $9.99 ($10.80 with tax) from the iTunes store, again most product reviews said this was going to be free, but being in the software business, I understand there are costs involved even if delivery of goods is electronic. This pricing was not the $99 advertised in the many product reviews I read about. The ProPrompter Wing was $129 with another $9.06 shipping fee for a total cost of $138.06. The product they created was the ProPrompter Wing and a ProPrompter iPhone/iTouch App. Recently they created a lower end product for some of the video bloggers out there. They made teleprompters, but for more higher end video production. Through reading several video related blogs, I ended up coming across products from Bodelin Technologies. This sent me searching for some of the the teleprompter solutions out there. One of the things I struggled with was reading from a script for the audio podcasts and now that IвЂ™m doing video, it was even harder to scroll through a document while being on camera.

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